Why I don't see the PS4 and the X1 going below $300 price tag for a long time

[Baalzamon]

fatslob-:O said:

phaedruss said:
How do you know it's an asymptote? You can't predict manufacturing improvements and general price reductions across the board. GDDR5 will certainly go down as lower end gpus start getting more than 1 or 2 GB and the mass production of it for PS4's etc.

Do you see the graph above here ? This is what I mean by how we've already achieved most of the cost reductions gains with the 28nm process technology and it's mostly due to the fact that the process node is mature with high yields to boot to begin with when manufacturing the next gen consoles. Even if GDDR5 does get cheaper don't expect it to amount a whole lot of savings because that age is already over for the most part.

Can you explain to me why cost reductions being met has to mean new consoles and whatnot are just done being made? Just because something is going to cost more in the future doesn't mean it is just done being made. It just means that we will not continue to see more and more powerful computers releasing for cheaper and cheaper prices. Instead prices will just have to increase some to compensate for the additional power.